Pink Floyd to Reunite

BigV · 06-13-2005, 01:46 PM

Where do I pay?

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...on=6.0.12.1040

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Pink Floyd to Reunite
Psychedelic rock pioneers to take stage in London for Live 8

Pink Floyd's classic Seventies lineup -- bassist/frontman Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright and drummer Nick Mason -- will take the stage for the first time in more than two decades at London's Hyde Park on July 2nd as part of the Live 8 concerts.

Elspode · 06-13-2005, 02:14 PM

Please tell me this event will be televised. Even if only on pay per view.

capnhowdy · 06-13-2005, 02:17 PM

At long last!
I'd love to be there, especially if they do lots of their earlier music. Not Meddle old but like Dark side or Wish you were here old. Makes me wanna break out the bong. I guess I'll just have to "wish I was there".
It would be nice if it were to be televised................Saw them in the 70's. Great show.

Rock Steady · 06-13-2005, 02:32 PM

Wheew Hooo!

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine

Elspode · 06-13-2005, 04:52 PM

Here's to a bloated, corporate-sponsored, obscenely expensive reunion tour sometime soon. I'll be there.

Now, someone go kick Gabriel, Phillips, Hackett and Collins in the ass and let's get on with the Genesis reunion tour as well.

lookout123 · 06-13-2005, 05:10 PM

i didn't get it then. i don't get it now.

mrnoodle · 06-13-2005, 05:22 PM

Genesis! That'd be awesome. I'm not huge huge into Floyd, but I'd buy a ticket.

sidebar: watched the Peter Gabriel DVD the other night at a friends house after getting a preview on PBS. "Growing Up" I think it's called? At any rate, Peter Gabriel is amazing.

capnhowdy · 06-13-2005, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

i didn't get it then. i don't get it now.

"did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
hot ashes for trees? hot air for the cool breeze?
cold comfort for chains?
did you exchange a walk on part in a war
for a lead roll in a cage?" (pink floyd).........

Damn, lookout123,
thats simple!

BigV · 06-13-2005, 05:34 PM

When I was in school, my best friend, Peter, got us tickets to see The Wall. It was in a big arena, and even though we were poor students, we actually had floor seats. Well, actually, on the floor, but at about midcourt.

So there we were, sitting in these uncomfortable metal folding chairs, looking straight forward and up, actually, over the heads of the fifty rows ahead of us (all on the same floor level), at the stage. They come on, play the tunes, rock out, what a show.

Then intermission. Beer, and a smoke break for 40,000 of my closest friends (ack, choke...). The lights flashed for "curtain!" and as we reassembled, it became clear that the Wall, of the title was being built up as the show progressed, and now at the start of the second half, there was an enormous white brick wall practically at the front of the stage, and maybe, 50 feet high (I guess).

Now all those heads that were in the way during the first half of the show were craned back to the max to see the band on the top of the wall (imagine the front row at the drive in...).

Our seats were PERFECT. Thanks Peter.

cowhead · 06-14-2005, 01:20 PM

saw them in St. Louis and Kc in the 80's damn fine show, then again I was one of those doped up kids who only listened to pink floyd.. a more grim deadhead I suppose. although they didn't have Waters with them, the show still kicked some serious ass.. although.. I really wish they (as in old rock stars) would just stop.. just stop.. how many freakin' 'last show ever' tours am I going to have to put up with and get suckered into seeing.. YEAH! I damn well paid the 60$ to see the original line up of Black Sabbath!.. and all told it was a little disapionting.. then again it could have just been the blistering heat and the 5$ glasses of water that had me a little in the way of surly.

ps. can aerosmith all just fucking stop! I mean DAMN! how many times can you crank out a formulaic album and expect people to buy it?!?! (oh wait, this is amurikuh isn't it?)

Elspode · 06-14-2005, 06:21 PM

I must respectfully disagree with Cowhead regarding old rockers just quitting. As long as they can still bash the strings and pummel the drums and press the keys and shriek off key, I say "do it!".

No one thought Horowitz should kick back and take it easy when he played Moscow at 90. No one told Jessica Tandy to get off the screen when she was pushing 80 and doing the best work of her career.

There will always be young punks out there to be relevant, smash hotel rooms and die from drug overdoses. The guys who have survived have something to sing about, and I think they need to do it until they either keel over or just decide that no one's listening anymore.

Let's see who ends up with the biggest grossing tours the next couple of years. I'm betting The Stones and Aerosmith will be in the top five. If Floyd goes on to tour, I'm betting it will be the most profitable in history.

kerosene · 06-14-2005, 08:26 PM

EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Saw these guys in 94 with the Division Bell tour. I will see them again. I was too young to go to a Pink Floyd concert for any of their earlier tours.

Who is being re-assembled within the group? Is Roger Waters (doubtful) coming back?

kerosene · 06-14-2005, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cowhead

ps. can aerosmith all just fucking stop! I mean DAMN! how many times can you crank out a formulaic album and expect people to buy it?!?! (oh wait, this is amurikuh isn't it?)

I think you are the only person in the world who agrees with me on this one. I don't like any of their stuff, though, so that would be why.

capnhowdy · 06-14-2005, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by case

EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Saw these guys in 94 with the Division Bell tour. I will see them again. I was too young to go to a Pink Floyd concert for any of their earlier tours.

Who is being re-assembled within the group? Is Roger Waters (doubtful) coming back?

Yes the bassman/singer will play, they say......

cowhead · 06-15-2005, 03:35 AM

okay allow me to re-phrase.. if you can still fucking rock? okay then! if you are a lay-about-has-been-wanting-to make-money-on past -fame-band waiting to make money on a ' comeback tour' then fuck you no, Bob Dylans last album was actually really good...

ps. case that's why we talk.
here's the other thing! as a pink floyd looser ass bastard! David Gilmour wrote most of their songs AND sung most of them.. from obscured by clouds until the fucking wall!!!!! waters just sung them until the fucking Wall and the Final Cut. pftfth! screw that son of a beeyotch! waters can suck a fucking fart of my ass! Nick Mason, David Gilmour and fucking Syd Barrett and richard wright! put more into that band than waters (yeah! in lower case!) ever fucking put into that.. FUCK HIM! uh. yeah right sorry.. done with that.. you now know my point

06-13-2005, 02:14 PM	#2
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Please tell me this event will be televised. Even if only on pay per view. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-13-2005, 02:17 PM	#3
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	At long last! I'd love to be there, especially if they do lots of their earlier music. Not Meddle old but like Dark side or Wish you were here old. Makes me wanna break out the bong. I guess I'll just have to "wish I was there". It would be nice if it were to be televised................Saw them in the 70's. Great show. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

06-13-2005, 02:32 PM	#4
Rock Steady Day Tripper Join Date: May 2005 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 784	Wheew Hooo! Welcome my son, welcome to the machine __________________

06-13-2005, 04:52 PM	#5
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Here's to a bloated, corporate-sponsored, obscenely expensive reunion tour sometime soon. I'll be there. Now, someone go kick Gabriel, Phillips, Hackett and Collins in the ass and let's get on with the Genesis reunion tour as well. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-13-2005, 05:10 PM	#6
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i didn't get it then. i don't get it now. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-13-2005, 05:22 PM	#7
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Genesis! That'd be awesome. I'm not huge huge into Floyd, but I'd buy a ticket. sidebar: watched the Peter Gabriel DVD the other night at a friends house after getting a preview on PBS. "Growing Up" I think it's called? At any rate, Peter Gabriel is amazing. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

06-13-2005, 05:34 PM	#9
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	When I was in school, my best friend, Peter, got us tickets to see The Wall. It was in a big arena, and even though we were poor students, we actually had floor seats. Well, actually, on the floor, but at about midcourt. So there we were, sitting in these uncomfortable metal folding chairs, looking straight forward and up, actually, over the heads of the fifty rows ahead of us (all on the same floor level), at the stage. They come on, play the tunes, rock out, what a show. Then intermission. Beer, and a smoke break for 40,000 of my closest friends (ack, choke...). The lights flashed for "curtain!" and as we reassembled, it became clear that the Wall, of the title was being built up as the show progressed, and now at the start of the second half, there was an enormous white brick wall practically at the front of the stage, and maybe, 50 feet high (I guess). Now all those heads that were in the way during the first half of the show were craned back to the max to see the band on the top of the wall (imagine the front row at the drive in...). Our seats were PERFECT. Thanks Peter. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-14-2005, 01:20 PM	#10
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	saw them in St. Louis and Kc in the 80's damn fine show, then again I was one of those doped up kids who only listened to pink floyd.. a more grim deadhead I suppose. although they didn't have Waters with them, the show still kicked some serious ass.. although.. I really wish they (as in old rock stars) would just stop.. just stop.. how many freakin' 'last show ever' tours am I going to have to put up with and get suckered into seeing.. YEAH! I damn well paid the 60$ to see the original line up of Black Sabbath!.. and all told it was a little disapionting.. then again it could have just been the blistering heat and the 5$ glasses of water that had me a little in the way of surly. ps. can aerosmith all just fucking stop! I mean DAMN! how many times can you crank out a formulaic album and expect people to buy it?!?! (oh wait, this is amurikuh isn't it?) __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

06-14-2005, 06:21 PM	#11
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I must respectfully disagree with Cowhead regarding old rockers just quitting. As long as they can still bash the strings and pummel the drums and press the keys and shriek off key, I say "do it!". No one thought Horowitz should kick back and take it easy when he played Moscow at 90. No one told Jessica Tandy to get off the screen when she was pushing 80 and doing the best work of her career. There will always be young punks out there to be relevant, smash hotel rooms and die from drug overdoses. The guys who have survived have something to sing about, and I think they need to do it until they either keel over or just decide that no one's listening anymore. Let's see who ends up with the biggest grossing tours the next couple of years. I'm betting The Stones and Aerosmith will be in the top five. If Floyd goes on to tour, I'm betting it will be the most profitable in history. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-14-2005, 08:26 PM	#12
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	EEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Saw these guys in 94 with the Division Bell tour. I will see them again. I was too young to go to a Pink Floyd concert for any of their earlier tours. Who is being re-assembled within the group? Is Roger Waters (doubtful) coming back?

06-15-2005, 03:35 AM	#15
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	okay allow me to re-phrase.. if you can still fucking rock? okay then! if you are a lay-about-has-been-wanting-to make-money-on past -fame-band waiting to make money on a ' comeback tour' then fuck you no, Bob Dylans last album was actually really good... ps. case that's why we talk. here's the other thing! as a pink floyd looser ass bastard! David Gilmour wrote most of their songs AND sung most of them.. from obscured by clouds until the fucking wall!!!!! waters just sung them until the fucking Wall and the Final Cut. pftfth! screw that son of a beeyotch! waters can suck a fucking fart of my ass! Nick Mason, David Gilmour and fucking Syd Barrett and richard wright! put more into that band than waters (yeah! in lower case!) ever fucking put into that.. FUCK HIM! uh. yeah right sorry.. done with that.. you now know my point __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

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